Re: HP 35 Version Red dot How many still "alive" ? Message #4 Posted by Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz on 31 Jan 2005, 12:53 a.m., in response to message #1 by Ronald
Ronald asked:
"I was wandering how many Original HP 35, version 1, Red Dot would still be around?
I remember to have read some place 10.000 were produced. Is that correct "
I wrote "about 10,000" in my book "A Guide to HP Handheld Calculators and Computers", having been told this number by one of the people who should have known, at HP Corvallis, when they were still designing and making the calculators there. (Yes, I know the HP-35 was a pre-Corvallis product.) It seems about right, but I can not guarantee this number. The book has further details about the different types of "version 1". As I wrote there, most people who have one are aware that they have something special, so I expect that most are still around.
Ronald specifies "Original HP 35, version 1" - do you know of any "fake version 1" units? Has someone been drilling holes in later versions, extending the ON/OFF switches, and sticking red tape to them? :-) Or maybe you mean "Later HP 35 version 1" units - a few HP-35 units were made from remaining parts and presented to HP-35 team members to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the introduction - a very few of these might have been "red dots" if any "red dot" components were still available 5 years later.
The last time I checked, my red-dots still worked :-)
Enjoy your HP-35, but take care of it!
Wlodek
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